How effective is checkuser? Options

[Ather]

If I wanted to run several accounts how likely is checkuser to pick me up? If I changed my IP each time I logged on how would they trap me? How long to they log IP addresses for? Do they keep a permanent record of my account creation IP? Do they record me logging on but not editing? What other info do they store and for how long? All this info is needed purely for research purposes

[MZMcBride]

I received an e-mail from the Arbitration Committee regarding my initial post in this thread. The e-mail expressed how the post was, "to put it lightly, causing consternation."

I've replied to the e-mail. We'll wait to see what happens next. Playing out the various scenarios in my head, I wonder if I were de-adminned for such a thing, if Mike Godwin (a hardy free speech advocate) would step in....

[Kelly Martin]

I received an e-mail from the Arbitration Committee regarding my initial post in this thread. The e-mail expressed how the post was, "to put it lightly, causing consternation."

I've replied to the e-mail. We'll wait to see what happens next. Playing out the various scenarios in my head, I wonder if I were de-adminned for such a thing, if Mike Godwin (a hardy free speech advocate) would step in....

What, your guide to socking? There's nothing in there that isn't widely known anyway.

Then again, Wikipedia still hasn't learned the lesson of Pandora's Box; they have entire policies based on the principle that you can stuff the demon back into the box.

Everything you have in that list has already been made publicly available somewhere. So you're not revealing any actual secrets. What you're doing is putting things in a nice neat package.

Everything Daniel Brandt has on Hivemind has already been made publicly available somewhere. So he's not revealing any actual secrets. What he's doing is putting things in a nice neat package.

See the difference?

Yes, nothing in MZMcBride's article amounts to revealing personal information about private (or even semi-private, or for that matter public) individuals.

Then again, the ArbCom has always been far more concerned about its institutional perogatives than about the privacy of individuals.

In any case, in case someone decides that the "guide" is too harmful to remain here, I've put a copy up on my website.